Whats your biggest mistake you ever made while DIY?

[Freak]

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[blouisgod]

this thread is classic

[02civic21]

[Kevbotron]

I didn't really have the best tools to install my intake, so I basically broke all off the mounting points off my air boxes oh and I sprayed my rotors a little bit when painting my calipers then I got new ones

[drunkenmagnum]

fucked up the v-tec sylonoid reinstalling the head that i took off in my garage. also snapped a oil line that was loose off with the fitting still stuck in the block- big mess. stripped a wheel studd b4....i got more but these r probably the biggest

[bakertime]

I drilled a hole in my buddy's brake booster in his explorer while running a power line for an amp.

Oops.

[chopper202]

I was usning my arc welder to weld my muffler to the little bolt on bit and I had the ground wire connected to that... well I obviousley didnt clamp it on to well it came off bout half way round the process and I didnt see it fly off through the tinted helmet well the welder and muffler sucked together and I welded my muffler to my welder and pretty much went straight through the the two layers together... I eneded up just taking it to a welding shop to fix my biggest and most expensive diy mistake..

[sl33pyriceboi]

it was a retrofit. i finished and sealed everything and relized i forgot to take off the serran wrap that i covered teh highbeam and projector...

i had to spend the extra time to take it aprt clean teh sliicone (a bitch may i add) and reseal it.

[colourwolf]

i scratch my car when i was waxing it.

and

Happy birthday to this thread...it is 4 years old..lol

[uv_blue]

so i knew this kid for about 10 years n yes i will admit he was a ricer one day he shows me this ridiculous dual deck wing that he wants to put on the back of his hyundai accent... insert laughter here... so anyway he wants me to drill the holes since he thinks i know about these things.. his mistake i know about fixing cars not installing ricer add ons ... anyway so i drilled the holes got everything aligned only to find that his bolts werent long enuf to go thru the framework on the back side they only went thru the actual skin... so i had to drill thru the framework with a 3/4 inch drill bit so that he could bolt directly to the skin n use washers well i get to the last one and by this time everyone in our school shop is watchin waitin for me to fuck up so i get thru the framework and the trigger "sticks" needless to say i drilled a 3/4 inch hole all the way thru his trunk lid he then bolted everything up and siliconed the hole while i recieved a wonderous applause

[colourwolf]

Originally Posted by zen_master

when i was unscrewing the screw on the OEM shifter....i broke it.....1/2 of it still remains on the chassis....

that was........crazy...

lol....me 2...and it is still in there....how did u get it out

[RedHonda00]

fixing the wiring to my cigarette lighter and the wires kept touching and kept blowing a fuse. was very frustrating & went threw alot of fuses that day

[DeX]

Originally Posted by uv_blue

so i knew this kid for about 10 years n yes i will admit he was a ricer one day he shows me this ridiculous dual deck wing that he wants to put on the back of his hyundai accent... insert laughter here... so anyway he wants me to drill the holes since he thinks i know about these things.. his mistake i know about fixing cars not installing ricer add ons ... anyway so i drilled the holes got everything aligned only to find that his bolts werent long enuf to go thru the framework on the back side they only went thru the actual skin... so i had to drill thru the framework with a 3/4 inch drill bit so that he could bolt directly to the skin n use washers well i get to the last one and by this time everyone in our school shop is watchin waitin for me to fuck up so i get thru the framework and the trigger "sticks" needless to say i drilled a 3/4 inch hole all the way thru his trunk lid he then bolted everything up and siliconed the hole while i recieved a wonderous applause

Originally Posted by chopper202

I was usning my arc welder to weld my muffler to the little bolt on bit and I had the ground wire connected to that... well I obviousley didnt clamp it on to well it came off bout half way round the process and I didnt see it fly off through the tinted helmet well the welder and muffler sucked together and I welded my muffler to my welder and pretty much went straight through the the two layers together... I eneded up just taking it to a welding shop to fix my biggest and most expensive diy mistake..

W.......T........F? Does anyone else understand anything from these 2 posts? There's no punctuation at all.

[sl33pyriceboi]

^does anyone even read them???


hahah i looked at them n was like.....aww sh!t, too long.


im sure most ppl on here dont read anything more than 3 lines...

[Tragedy]

One time I put the car up on jack stands, installed a new exhaust part, then realized I installed a new gasket without taking the old one out. So I had to take it off, and re do it all.